Beneath our feet, a slow-motion crisis is unfolding. The world's underground water stores, known as aquifers, are being drained at a pace that took scientists years of painstaking data collection to ...

Pune: The aquifer mapping of 200 villages in Maharashtra project launched at the Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics (GIPE), Pune as part of its Mission Easy Water Literacy hopes to address ...

An aquifer is an underground body of rock that contains or can transmit groundwater. The UIC regulations allow EPA to exempt aquifers that do not currently serve as a source of drinking water and will ...

Potential future fracking activity in the UK is unlikely to pose a pollution danger to overlying aquifers, new research from a leading academic suggests. One of the primary concerns of those who ...

Others that still remain are quickly drying up. Because of deeper and deeper pumping of well water in order to feed water-intensive wheat and alfalfa fields that began in the 1980s, many thousands of ...

All sections prior to this one have covered Hazard Ranking System (HRS) concepts that apply to all or most pathways. Beginning with Section 8, these concepts are applied to specific pathways as if HRS ...

Millions of years ago, in the ocean above what is now Florida, a small crustacean dies. It sinks to the seafloor where, in time, it is covered by the skeletons of other fish, shellfish, and coral ...

In India, groundwater plays a critical role in meeting urban water demands. These aquifers, found at relatively shallow depths, have served as vital sources of water for centuries. New Delhi: A child ...

Discoveries of aquifers – underground earth formations that hold water – often create excitement around their ability to ease water scarcity in a region. These are welcome announcements. Due to a ...